Tulca Festival of Visual Art 2015: Sketching Contemporary Art

The Tulca Festival of Visual Art takes place in Galway every November. It consists of two weeks of contemporary art exhibited in lots of venues throughout the city, from galleries to public buildings. You can find exhibits in UHG, and in the James Mitchell Geology Museum, as well as in more well-known gallery spaces around town like the Galway Arts Centre, Nuns’ Island Theatre and more. The old Connacht Tribune print works on Market Street is the main gallery of the festival and was where the opening of the exhibition was held. Last Friday I braved the cold, wind and rain to attend it, with the intention of sketching what I saw and soaking up the atmosphere.
The exhibition is called Seachange, and aims to draw attention to climate change – and the concomitant disappearance of islands – using the mythological island of Hy-Brasil as a motif. So the exhibits all refer in some way to the sea or to the fragility of our existence on Earth. I had never heard of Hy-Brasil before Friday, but many people more learned than I know all about it. It’s a sort of make-believe, sunken island off the south-west coast of Ireland but if I say any more than that I’ll be out of my depth, so to speak.

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I absolutely loved this. I’ve been reading you for a while as well as enjoying all your lovely sketches (and we communicated recently on USk Facebook about the marvellous Field Easel Art Bag) but I just had to tell you how much I enjoyed this post. I keep coming back to read it again. You have such a lovely lightness of touch in your writing – combined with beautifully sharp, honest observation and wry humour. Together with your wonderful drawings – it’s the best of what Urban Sketching is all about.

Deborah, thank you so much for your very kind words. What praise! I am really touched and genuinely delighted to think my efforts give you such enjoyment. I enjoy writing about these things so much, and there are so many fascinating subjects to write about…